Sarah Palin has a lot of visibility and she is an effective speaker for conservative and traditional patriotic American values.  So, everyone who claims to be a conservative and/or a Republican should defend Sarah Palin.  And the major part of that defense should be to compare Sarah Palin with Barack Obama.  Sarah Palin is the conservative Republican in the public eye – our “rock star” taking on the leftist’s “rock star”.  On every issue where she is criticized, her superiority to Barack Obama should be emphasized.  Here are some examples:

Leftist: “Sarah Palin is a quitter”. Answer:  When Barack Obama ran for president he continued to collect his Senate salary though he was not actually working full time as a Senator.  At least if Sarah Palin chooses to run for president, she won’t be collecting the governor’s salary while she does it.  Sarah Palin has more integrity and is a better steward of the taxpayer’s money than Barack Obama.

Leftist:  “Sarah Palin isn’t smart enough to be president; she didn’t go to an Ivy League College.”  Answer: Abraham Lincoln didn’t go to an Ivy League College either.  Interesting that Barack Obama is a Harvard grad, but neither he nor his Harvard professor friend, Gates, know enough to just politely cooperate with the police.  Harvard grad Obama calls the police stupid.

Leftist:  “Sarah Palin has no foreign affairs experience.”  Answer: She negotiated the pipeline deal with Canadian officials.  Sarah Palin comes to negotiations with a core understanding of America’s greatness.  She knows Alaska history, and she knows the cost America paid for appeasement and military unpreparedness.  Barack Obama keeps apologizing to dictators instead of making them respect, and if necessary, fear America.

Leftist: - “Sarah Palin doesn’t know anything about the economy.”  Answer: The Palins have actually run a small business, made payroll, and created jobs.  What has Barack Obama actually done about the economy? besides having unemployment go up and getting criticized by the president of RUSSIA for being too socialistic?  Barack Obama has no experience in the private sector, and most job expansion must occur in the private sector.

Leftist: - “Sarah Palin opposes a woman’s right to choose.”  Answer: Sarah Palin is not in favor of a federal law banning abortion and did not push for an Alaska law banning abortion when she was governor.  Based on her actions so far, she could actually say, “I would never get an abortion myself, but I wouldn’t institute a nationwide legal ban on other women getting them.”  By the way, what about Sarah Palin’s right to choose?  If she chooses to give birth, shouldn’t everyone respect HER CHOICE?  Oh, and while we may not agree on precisely when life begins, can’t we agree that life has certainly begun by the time the baby is born?  And doesn’t that make Barack Obama’s opposition to providing medical care to infants born alive a horribly wrong policy?

You can think up other defenses of Palin; she’s sure better than Obama.  Deflect all criticism of Palin onto Obama.

Palin doesn’t need to be perfect; she just needs to be better than Obama.  Palin, Sessions, Romney, and Huckabee are all basically the same.  They’re all Americans and proud of it.  None of them went to a church for 20 years where the pastor cursed America.  None of them launched their political careers from a terrorist’s house.  We’ve got a couple years to decide who should be the Republican nominee – but for now we should all defend the lady who speaks up defending America, regular Americans, and conservatism.

I’m voting for McCain even though I expect Obama will carry Illinois by more than a few votes. I want McCain to win the popular vote as well as the electoral vote.

John Pitney, in NRO, discusses the possibility that McCain wins the electoral college, but loses the popular vote, and Obama persuades some electors in states carried by McCain to vote Obama so that Obama becomes the next president even though McCain would have won the electoral college vote in the normal winner-take-all scenario with faithfull electors.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjhjMzVjYTZiYzdlNzE1NGZmY2E2MjgxMWI5YWJiMzY=

Also, I’ve read about the possibility of a 269-269 electoral vote tie. In that case the winner of the popular vote would have a strong claim on the presidency.

Finally, maybe these polls are REALLY screwed up. If I can make McCain carry Illinois by one vote, I want to do it.

Make YOUR VOTE count. FOR MCCAIN-PALIN!!!!

Senator Biden said, “Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

An international crisis is not necessarily an event like the Cuban Missile Crisis that gets resolved peacefully. Thousands of people can die in an international crisis. These are very dangerous times, in some ways far more dangerous than the environment that Kennedy and Carter faced. The principal adversary both these presidents faced was the Soviet Union; the Soviet leaders certainly tested both Kennedy and Carter, but these tests did not involve an attack on America itself, nor a nuclear attack on any of America’s allies. Khrushchev and Brezhnev were rational and somewhat cautious men.

We cannot expect the same restraint from Ahmadinejad. If Iran builds atomic weapons, it is reasonable to expect that Ahmadinejad would use them against Israel and possibly the United States. Given Obama’s friendship with Pastor Wright and Rashid Khalidi, both outspoken opponents of “Zionism”, Iran might feel that the United States would not retaliate if it nuked Tel Aviv. Thus, election of Obama could lead to a disastrous Middle East war – millions of deaths, and a world-wide oil shortage, short term. Long term, failure by the US to retaliate for a nuclear attack on Israel would encourage attacks on other allies, and even the American homeland.

If McCain is president, Iran will know that an attack on Israel will mean certain massive US retaliation, and this would give the Iranians a strong incentive not to be warmongers. McCain did not submit for five years while he was in a position of weakness as a prisoner and being tortured. McCain, as Commander in Chief, and in a position of strength, will be bullied by no one, certainly not Ahmadinejad. McCain has also stated that for Iran to develop atomic weapons is unacceptable. Nobody believes that Obama would take strong action to stop Iran from building atomic bombs, so the election of Obama almost guarantees that some time during his presidency Iran will get, and possibly use, atomic weapons. With McCain, Iran faces a determined and resolute obstacle to any aggression, any time, any where.